Events in year of 1805
- 01-11Michigan Territory organizes
- 03-03Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
- 04-27US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
- 05-04Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
- 05-26Lewis and Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
- 05-26Napoleon is crowned King of Italy
- 06-04Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
- 06-051st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
- 06-21Great Stoneface Mt found in New Hampshire
- 07-08American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
- 07-26Naples / Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
- 09-041st edition of Batavian State-Current published
- 09-30Napoleons army draws into the Rhine
- 10-21Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies
- 10-23Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
- 11-07Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
- 11-08Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean
- 11-18Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
- 12-02Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz
- 12-09Comet 3D / 1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
- 12-26France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
- 12-26Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
- 12-31End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
People born in year of 1805
- 01-04Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh: Composer
- 01-27Samuel Palmer: London, England -- Painter / etcher (Valley of Vision)
- 02-03Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel: Premier Prussia
- 02-04Georg Andreas Henkel: Composer
- 02-13David Dudley Field: Lawyer / law codifier
- 02-13Peter G L Dirichlet: Germany -- Number theorist / analysist
- 02-18Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough: Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
- 02-20Angelina Grimke: Reformer / abolitionist / politician / lawyer
- 02-21David Tod: US diplomat / (Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
- 03-05Theodore Labarre: Composer
- 03-30Adrien de La Fage: Composer
- 04-07Francis Wilkinson Pickens: Governor of South Carolina (Confederacy) died in 1869
- 04-30William Kerley Strong: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
- 05-14Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann: Composer
- 06-08Luigi Ricci: Composer
- 06-14Robert Anderson: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
- 06-21Karl Friedrich Curschmann: Composer
- 06-22Giuseppe Mazzini: Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare)
- 06-27Stephen Elvey: Composer
- 06-29Hiram Powers: US sculptor (Greek Slave)
- 07-09Henry John Gauntlett: Composer
- 07-26Constantine Brumidi: Artist (Myrtle Murdock)
- 07-29Alexis de Tocqueville: France -- Statesman / writer (Democracy in America)
- 08-08Antoon Jurgens: Dutch margarine manufacturer
- 08-11Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude: Dutch judge / member of parliament
- 08-18Josef Danhauser: Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
- 08-30Michael Sars: Norwegian zoologist
- 09-06Horatio Greenough: United States -- Neo-classical sculptor / writer (Form & Function)
- 09-18Robert Cowdin: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
- 09-23Matthew Adams Stickney: Rowley, Massachusetts -- Numismatist
People died in year of 1805
- 01-17Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron: French interpreter, dies at 73
- 01-19Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier: Composer, dies at 43
- 01-23Vaclav Pichl: Composer, dies at 63
- 01-24Giacomo Conti: Composer, dies at 50
- 02-27Stefan Paluselli: Composer, dies at 57
- 03-04Jean-Baptiste Greuze: French painter, dies at 79
- 04-06Lorenz Justinian Ott: Composer, dies at 56
- 05-09Friedrich Schiller: Writer, dies at 45
- 05-09Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller: Poet / playwright, dies at 45
- 05-16Christian Brunings: Hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
- 05-28Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini: Ital Composer / cellist (Minuet), dies at 62
- 07-01Georg Ritschel: Composer, dies at 60
- 07-09Georg W "Franz" Panzer: German vicar / librarian, dies at 76
- 08-01Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz: Composer, dies at 51
- 10-13Johann Christoph Kuhnau: Composer, dies at 70
- 10-21Horatio Nelson: Dies in Battle of Trafalgar
- 10-21Johann Baptist Lasser: Composer, dies at 54
- 12-10Friedrich Franz Hurka: Composer, dies at 43
- 12-27Belle van Zuylen: Netherlands / Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
Events in year of 1806
- 01-08Cape colony becomes English colony
- 01-10Dutch in Cape Town surrender to British
- 01-12French evacuate Vienna
- 01-19Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
- 01-30Prussia takes possession of Hanover
- 03-23Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast
- 04-05Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
- 06-051st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
- 06-05Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
- 06-24English under commodore Popham / col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
- 06-27Buenos Aires captured by British
- 07-03Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
- 07-15Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
- 08-06Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
- 09-02A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
- 09-23Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest
- 10-07Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
- 10-08British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
- 10-14Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
- 11-151st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes the 1st issue
- 11-15Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
- 11-21Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
People born in year of 1806
- 01-05Andre H C van Hasselt: Belgian poet (La Belgium)
- 01-14Matthew Fontaine Maury: Naval Commander (Confederacy)
- 01-19Vaclav Jindrich Veit: Composer
- 01-20Nathaniel Willis: Writer / editor / founder (American Monthly Magazine)
- 01-25Daniel Maclise: Irish painter
- 02-14Lajos: Count Batthy, New York -- Revolutionary Premier of Hungary (1848-49)
- 03-12Jane Means Appleton Pierce: 1st lady (1853-57)
- 03-16Norbert Rillieux: Inventor (sugar refiner)
- 03-26Josef Slavik: Composer
- 03-28Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele: Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies (1861-66)
- 04-02Giacomo Antonelli: Italian Cardinal / Assistant Secretary of State for Pius IX
- 04-09Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
- 04-10Leonidas Polk: Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
- 04-18Ludwig Schuberth: Composer
- 04-21Peter van Schendel: Dutch painter
- 04-26Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch: Composer
- 04-29Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben: Austria -- Physician / philosopher
- 05-06Chapin Aaron Harris: United States -- Founder of the America Society of Dental Surgeons
- 05-08Jan Bedrich Kittl: Composer
- 05-12Amos Beebe Eaton: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
- 05-12J V Snellman: Finland -- Journalist / Statesman / nationalist
- 05-16George C Cadwalader: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
- 05-20John Stuart Mill: United Kingdom -- Philosopher / political economist / Utilitarian
- 05-26Henry Knox Thatcher: Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
- 05-27Charles-Joseph Tolbecque: Composer
- 06-01John Buchanan Floyd: Ex-Secretary of War (Union), died in 1863
- 06-02Isaac Strauss: Composer
- 06-08Gideon Johnson Pillow: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
- 06-13Bernard ter Haar: Dutch vicar / poet / church historian
- 06-28Napoleon Coste: Composer
People died in year of 1806
- 01-23William Pitt [the Younger]: Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783-1806), dies at 46
- 02-11Vicente Martin y Soler: Composer, dies at 51
- 02-23John Alcock: Composer, dies at 90
- 02-24John Nieuwenhuijzen: Theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
- 03-16Giuseppe Colla: Composer, dies at 74
- 03-17David Dale: Industrialist and philanthropist
- 03-23George Frederic Pinto: Composer, dies at 20
- 04-04Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer: Composer, dies at 84
- 04-09Willem V Batavus: Prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58
- 04-13Jean-Jacques Bachelier: French painter, dies at about 82
- 06-08George Wythe: US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at about 79
- 06-28Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers: Composer, dies at 64
- 07-11James Smith: Irish / US attorney / signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 87
- 08-09Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian: Composer, dies at 33
- 08-10Johann Michael Haydn: Composer, dies at 68
- 08-23Charles Augustin de Coulomb: French physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
- 09-10Johann C Adelung: German translator / librarian, dies at 74
- 09-12Christian Gottfried Thomas: Composer, dies at 58
- 09-20Utamaro Kitagawa: Painter
- 10-09Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer / mathematician, dies at 74
- 10-17Jean Jacques Dessalines: Emperor of Haiti
- 10-23Franz Seydelmann: Composer, dies at 58
- 10-31Sophie Mereau: Writer, dies at 36
Events in year of 1807
- 01-01Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
- 01-12Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Neth, 150 die
- 01-20Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
- 02-08Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
- 02-09French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
- 02-10US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
- 02-19British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
- 02-19VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
- 02-2417 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England
- 03-02Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
- 03-251st railway passenger service began in England
- 03-25British Parliament abolishes slave trade
- 03-25George Canning becomes British Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 05-22Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted)
- 05-22Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia)
- 06-22British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
- 06-26Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
- 06-28British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
- 07-07France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
- 09-01Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
- 09-04Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
- 09-14Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
- 12-22Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
People born in year of 1807
- 01-02Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki: Composer
- 01-04Baltasar Saldoni: Composer
- 01-06Joseph Holt: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
- 01-06Ludwig Erk: Composer
- 01-11Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- 01-11Ezra Cornell: Founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
- 01-12Jan T Beelen: Dutch / Belgian bible expert
- 01-13Napoleon Bonaparte Buford: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
- 01-16Charles Henry Davis: Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
- 02-01William Bowen Campbell: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
- 02-03Joseph Eggleston Johnston: Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
- 02-06Hans Matthison-Hansen: Composer
- 02-08Franciscus J van Vree: Dutch Catholic foreman
- 02-10Abner Clark Harding: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
- 02-13Bartolommea Capitanio: Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)
- 02-15Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Composer
- 02-16Lysander Cutler: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
- 02-25George Alfred Trenholm: Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
- 03-07Franz Grave von Pocci: German poet / composer (Der Alchemist)
- 04-01Fredrik Cygnaeus: Finnish poet / literature critic
- 04-24Charles Ferguson Smith: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
- 05-01John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder: Major General (Confederate Army)
- 05-11Ira Aldridge: Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello)
- 05-15Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata: Composer
- 05-24Cornelis E van Koetsveld: Vicar / literature
- 05-24Thomas Duncan: Painter
- 05-28Jan van Swieten: Dutch General / Governor of West-Sumatra
- 05-28Louis Agassiz: Switzerland -- Naturalist / geologist / teacher
- 06-02Robert Fuhrer: Composer
- 06-06Adrien Francois Servais: Composer
People died in year of 1807
- 01-05Michel Adanson: French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79
- 01-12Adriaan Kluit: Dutch historian, dies at 71
- 01-12Joan Lucaz: Dutch Scholar / journalist / patriot, dies at 60
- 02-05Pasquale Paoli: Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
- 02-06John Reid: Composer, dies at 85
- 02-18August G Meissner: German estheticus / literary, dies at 53
- 02-18S von Laroche: Writer, dies at 75
- 02-23Francois Guichard: Composer, dies at 61
- 03-11Anton Eberl: Composer, dies at 41
- 04-01Louis Francois Chambray: Composer, dies at 69
- 04-01Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner: Composer, dies at 61
- 04-09John Opie: Engl Painter / illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
- 04-18Erasmus Darwin: Physician / writer (Influence)
- 08-15Johann N Tetens: German / Danish philosopher / mathematician, dies at 70
- 08-16Claude C Saunier: French furniture maker, dies at about 72
- 09-12Edward Miller: Composer, dies at 71
- 12-03Clara Reeve: English Author (old English baron)
- 12-04Prince Hall: Activist / Masonic leader, dies in Boston